Photo by George Shiras, 3rd
A LARGE BAND OF SHEEP, NEAR THE MOUNTAIN TOP, CROSSING A SNOW FIELD FOR
THE PURPOSE OF CLIMBING THE ADJOINING CLIFFS FOR THE NIGHT
proached the principal object of interest
was the lunch-box. Finally, four sheep
were seen on the skyline two miles away,
and down they started on one of the big
runways leading to the valley. They
came rapidly and were soon standing on
a bare plateau a quarter of a mile above
the meadow.
Here they stopped and
looked below, but in a few minutes be
gan grazing on the sparse grass. After
remaining half an hour they took a trail
toward the head of the valley, where
there were doubtless a good many other
sheep.
"It was then that the idea suggested
itself of a light and portable set of life
sized profile decoys, made of white cloth,
which could be set at any angle and
where they could be seen broadside at a
long distance. The day before, as al-